Eliza, computer therapist

ELIZA emulates a Rogerian psychotherapist.

ELIZA has almost no intelligence whatsoever, only
tricks like string substitution and canned responses
based on keywords. Yet when the original ELIZA first
appeared in the 60's, some people actually mistook her for
human. The illusion of intelligence works best, however,
if you limit your conversation to talking about yourself
and your life.

This javascript version of ELIZA was originally written by
Michal Wallace and
significantly enhanced by
George Dunlop.

Note: Eliza is dumb! This is common knowledge. Please
don't write to me telling me she's dumb, or how to fix it.
If you don't like the way she works, you can change the code
yourself. Just view source on this page to see the javascript,
and save it to your hard drive. Then do a search for javascript
documenation, and you should be able to make Eliza act any
way you want. :)